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Live with Me
Brown Sugar
Can't You Hear Me Knocking
Bitch
I Got the Blues
Rocks Off
Rip This Joint
Shake Your Hips
Casino Boogie
Tumbling Dice
Sweet Virginia
Loving Cup
Happy
Turd on the Run
Ventilator Blues
Let It Loose
All Down the Line
Coming Down Again
Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo
Hide Your Love
Star Star
Dance
Let Me Go
Emotional Rescue
She's So Cold
All About You

C

Wow! I never realized how much he was involved in EXILE compared to his other contributions in other albums. He really was a part of the 'inner circle' of the band at that time. Heavily rooted to the sound of that album.

It is interesting how much his contribution co-incided with the times of Mick Taylor; both of them were introduced in the same track on album ("Live With Me"), if we forget Taylor's "Honky Tonk" appearance earlier. Both of them put their strong mark on STICKY FINGERS, EXILE and GOATS HEAD SOUP albums, making them partly sound like they do. If it was a role of Brian Jones earlier 'coloring' the tracks, it was these two guys basically doing that task in those albums. We know what happened to Bobby in 1973, but he did a great come back in EMOTIONAL RESCUE - especially his contribution to title track is essential to the feel of the song. For a reason or other he was not used in a recording ever since, despite him being a part of the modern Rolling Stones touring band.

Bobby was a Rolling Stone.

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The sky is crying........................love

We will MISS YOU !!!
R.I.P

R.I.P. Bobby.

So sad to hear this...a wonderful musician will be badly missed by everyone who had the honour to hear him play.I can't remember how many times I had that priviledge as it's been so many but I know that each one was special.

Chriseganstar

Satisfied since 1976

We'll never know how many bottles are required to properly fill the tub

Saddening news for sure.

What a life, RIP.

BOBBY KEYS – 1971 Melody Maker Interview

I was going to post the second half of my interview with Ray Davies today, but that can wait until tomorrow as last night I heard of the sad death of Bobby Keys, one of the all-time great rock and roll saxophone players, along with King Curtis and Clarence Clemons.

In May of 1971, as I report elsewhere on Just Backdated, I was flown to Cannes for a party to celebrate the Rolling Stones signing with Atlantic, and at the party I was introduced to him by Mick Jagger, no less. So I whipped out my pen and note book and did a quick interview, not the most profound I’ve ever done but it seems like the right thing to post it today.

In 2012 Omnibus Press published Bobby’s biography Every Night’s A Saturday Night, with a Foreword by his best pal Keith Richards. It’s a wild ride.

RIP Bobby.

“It's Bobby Keys, the greatest saxophone player in the world,” said Mick Jagger. And Bobby smiled modestly towards me.

“A great bunch of guys, the Stones. But there are plenty of others better than me. I can't even read music,” drawled Bobby in his Texas accent. “I just love playing rock and roll and the Stones are just a great little rock and roll band.”

Looking at Bobby's young face, it's hard to believe he actually started out with Buddy Holly. And has other impressive references too: Delaney & Bonnie, Leon Russell and Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs & Englishmen.

At the weekend Bobby was staying with Keith Richard near Cannes and while everyone fussed around the Stones at their press conference, a chat with Bobby seemed like a good idea.

How did the Stones-Keys partnership come about, I asked. “When I met them I was working with Delaney & Bonnie in California and they came over to rehearse near us. One night they came to listen to us playing and the next day I got a call asking me if I'd like to put a horn solo on a track on the Let It Bleed album. It was 'Live With Me'.

“I didn't see or hear anything from them until I came over to England to work on the George Harrison album [All Things Must Pass]. I got another call from them and went to Olympic studios to work on their album and ever since then I've been really involved. They're a damn good band, and I really dig going on the road with them.”

Bobby has always been content to trade his skills wherever they are needed, and seems uninterested in being part of a permanent group. “This idea of a floating rock and roll band appeals to me. The Joe Cocker tour was one giant affair where you just came along and played. It was the same with Leon Russell and Delanie & Bonney.”

Bobby's hometown is in Texas and it was there he met up with Buddy Holly. “I was just a little kid seven years old when I heard my first rock and roll. I went down to see Holly and he was really doing something different.

“I started hanging around with Buddy and learning to play the horn and eventually I got a gig with Buddy Knox. I joined him for some recording and went to work with Bobby Vee after that.

“Of all the bands I've worked with I think I prefer the Stones. They have a personal relationship which makes them a really together group.”

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Bobby Keys to me, was as much a part of the fabric we call the Rolling Stones as Keith or Charlie. I manage to shake his hand back in Memphis. This was in '05. He is now with Nicky, Brian, Billy, Keith Harwood, Marshall and so many others that are the pathos called the legend of the Rolling Stones. His birthday is coming up, a day we need to celebrate. But today is a sad sad day.

Live Forever Bobby.

RIP Bobby

Thanks for the great music, Bobby.

There is no doubt about it, you were a Stone!

It's truly sad to know he's gone forever.
Now he might be playing with Buddy again. Musicians' Heaven will listen to Bobby's sax playing. Enjoy it, guys!

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It's truly sad to know he's gone forever.
Now he might be playing with Buddy again. Musicians' Heaven will listen to Bobby's sax playing. Enjoy it, guys!

Buddy?

I bought a copy of Bobby's book at the meet and greet after seeing him in Detroit a couple of years ago. I asked him to autograph it "To Nick and Marlene."

"Dick?"
"No. Nick. To Nick and Marlene"
"Mick?"

I thought it would be rude to correct him a second time. Our book is signed "To Mick and Marlene." I still haven't read it. Maybe now would be a good time.

Not sure if anyone can see this, but here's a picture of me wearing my Bobby Keys t-shirt.

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It's truly sad to know he's gone forever.
Now he might be playing with Buddy again. Musicians' Heaven will listen to Bobby's sax playing. Enjoy it, guys!

Buddy?

Holly

Met him in NYC at the Iridium after Mick Taylor's concert back in May 2012. He was the nicest guy, really. Talkative, warm, funny... he will be missed.

RIP Bobby

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It's truly sad to know he's gone forever.
Now he might be playing with Buddy again. Musicians' Heaven will listen to Bobby's sax playing. Enjoy it, guys!

Buddy?

Holly

Ah, thanks - of course. His fellow Lubbockian...

Very sad news - RIP Bobby

Would love someone to put together a collection of Bobbys best work-- The Stones, Lennon, Harrison, Ringo, Mad Dogs & Englishmen, Delaney * Bonnie, Clapton, maybe a track or two from Bobby's solo album, Wino's, etc

what a horn player !!!
RIP Bobby

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liddas
Live with Me
Brown Sugar
Can't You Hear Me Knocking
Bitch
I Got the Blues
Rocks Off
Rip This Joint
Shake Your Hips
Casino Boogie
Tumbling Dice
Sweet Virginia
Loving Cup
Happy
Turd on the Run
Ventilator Blues
Let It Loose
All Down the Line
Coming Down Again
Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo
Hide Your Love
Star Star
Dance
Let Me Go
Emotional Rescue
She's So Cold
All About You

C

Great list!

Off the Exile bonus disc I'd add So Divine (Aladdin Story), Pass The Wine (Sophia Loren) and I'm Not Signifying.

Bobby's setlist from The Magic Bag, Ferndale, Michigan, October 18, 2012


Live With Me
The Letter
The Wanderer
Sweet Virginia
Harlem Nocturne
You Look Like I Could Use A Drink
Brown Sugar

(Intermission)

Whatever Gets You Through The Night
Bitch
Soul Serenade
What Is Life
Delta Lady
Boot Leg
Can't You Hear Me Knocking

(Encore)

Happy

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Live with Me
Brown Sugar
Can't You Hear Me Knocking
Bitch
I Got the Blues
Rocks Off
Rip This Joint
Shake Your Hips
Casino Boogie
Tumbling Dice
Sweet Virginia
Loving Cup
Happy
Turd on the Run
Ventilator Blues
Let It Loose
All Down the Line
Coming Down Again
Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo
Hide Your Love
Star Star
Dance
Let Me Go
Emotional Rescue
She's So Cold
All About You

C

What a setlist that would make... sad news...RIP, Bobby Keys!

Posted by Amber Keys on Twitter.



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Would love someone to put together a collection of Bobbys best work-- The Stones, Lennon, Harrison, Ringo, Mad Dogs & Englishmen, Delaney * Bonnie, Clapton, maybe a track or two from Bobby's solo album, Wino's, etc

what a horn player !!!
RIP Bobby

Oui !!!


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I am a Frenchie ,as Mick affectionately called them in the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977 .

Bobby and Amber.



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"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"

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Posted by Amber on Facebook.

A lovely shot.

Keith words about Bobby Keys'death :

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Do you know who took that beautiful shot, and where/when?

Love and light to Bobby and everyone close to him

I find this one on official Keith web site
no info about who took and when

Devastating. Devastated.

Thank you, Bobby Keys. RIP.